09/06/2026
Does Catscanr use AI?
Everyone's asking. With OpenAI and Anthropic racing toward trillion-dollar IPOs, AI is impossible to ignore — and investors in pet tech want to know where you stand on it.
Here's our honest take.
Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose argues we should call it “artificial cleverness” rather than intelligence. What systems like ChatGPT do is predict the most probable next token — one at a time — based on patterns from training data. No understanding. No meaning. Pattern completion at scale. Useful — but not intelligent in any deep sense.
That framing matters when deciding how and where to use these tools.
CatScanR — part of the CatSwoppr family alongside our Global Cat PR Agency CatSwoppr — bridges online and offline cat love. Discover cats nearby, connect with fellow enthusiasts, and turn online conversations into real-world meetups, verified through our PawsUp trust system.
Where does AI fit for us? Profile matching — connecting the right cat lover, with the right need, to the right person nearby. But only if the economics make sense. Token costs add up fast at scale. We’ll only use AI if the revenue outweighs what it costs to run.
EBITTTA — Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Tokens, Depreciation and Amortization. A joke circulating in tech circles. But it makes a serious point too many startups gloss over.
On photo-based pet health analysis startups: the ambition is real, but the challenge is underappreciated. You need vast amounts of labeled training data to outperform just asking Claude or ChatGPT. Slow, expensive, medically complex. The bar is much higher than it looks.
Look carefully at who’s building what you use.
In 2024, Blackstone acquired Rover for $2.3 billion. Rover then acquired Cat-in-a-Flat — founded by genuine cat lovers. Blackstone’s business is returns for investors. The people now in charge of Cat-in-a-Flat’s future are capital allocators, not cat lovers.
Your trust belongs with those who genuinely love cats.
We’re not claiming to disrupt everything. We just want to be a bridge — and make sure cats get the real, physical attention they deserve.
Built for real cat life. 🐱
👉 catscanr.app
Full blog here: https://www.catswoppr.io/post/does-catscanr-use-artificial-intelligence
A look at how we think about AI — and what we actually do with it. AI has been all over the news lately. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward public markets at near-trillion-dollar valuations. OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO targeting a valuation of up to $1 trillion, w...
